The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 122
When she was satisfied, she said, ‘But now I am so tired, where is a bed in which I can sleep?
Who acts: hunger, I · What happens: be, say, sleep · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunger, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 satisfied | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 tired | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 tired | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tired | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tired | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 tired | advmod |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bed | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 bed | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bed | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bed | det |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tired | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sleep | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sleep | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 sleep | aux |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bed | parataxis |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hunger | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hunger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | now | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | I not said here | a bed | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep | can | I | a bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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